Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate...
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"We never liked those guys," says one former Facebook engineer. "We all had that audacity, 'Anything Google does, we can do better.' No one talked about MySpace or the other social networks. We just talked about Google."
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Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn't just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internet—its structure, design, and utility. For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline.
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In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor,
the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of
a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online
world, one that places Facebook right at the center.
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on 2009-06-24 by raheggem
This is what I was proposing to Microsoft years ago, but they couldn't see it then. Can they see it now? B2B is still ripe for the taking...
users will query this "social graph"
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More than 200 million people—about one-fifth of all Internet users—have Facebook accounts.
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Like typical trash-talking youngsters, Facebook sources argue that their competition is old and out of touch. "Google is not representative of the future of technology in any way," one Facebook veteran says. "Facebook is an advanced communications network enabling myriad communication forms. It almost doesn't make sense to compare them."
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